THANK YOU! I needed to use tostring() in this case but the key was realizing
what kind of data I was dealing with.
Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: En Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:07:18
-0300, Michael Pelz Sherman
escribió:
> I'm having a devil of a time getting serialized data into and out of a
> database (MySQL in this case) using python and MySQLdb.
>
> I have some C code that has its own serialization/deserialization
> functions, which we've wrapped using SWIG.
>
> I am able to save the serialized C structs to disk but when I try to
> write the exact same data to MySQL and pull it back out, I'm getting
> some strange results. The data comes back looking like this:
>
> array('c', '\x01r\x01\x00\x...)
>
> Is this a python buffer, or what? How can I access the data in there?
> I've tried using [1] but that doesn't seem to work.
It's an array of characters
You can write it to disk again using its tofile() method
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